>From: Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com>
>Reply-To: slug@nks.net
>To: slug@nks.net
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] confused about file permissions
>Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:38:34 -0400 (EDT)
>
>Whether you can delete a file depends on having write permission in its
>directory, not on the permissions of the file itself. If you want to
>truncate it and keep everything else -- inode, permissions, etc. -- the
>same
>(e.g. "cat /dev/null > file"), you need to have write permission on the
>file.
>
Thanks for clearing that up, Eben!
-Jonathon
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